Beyond Alternative Food Networks

Author : Cristina Grasseni
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857852298

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Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind these movements and key themes such as collective buying, relationships with local producers and consumers, financial management, to the everyday political and practical negotiation involving GAS groups. Vitally, the author demonstrates how GAS processes are key to providing survival strategies for small farms, local food chains and sustainable agriculture as a whole. Beyond Alternative Food Networks offers a fresh and engaged approach to this area, demonstrating the capacity for individuals to join organised forms of alternative political ecologies and impact upon their local food systems and practices. These social groups help to create new economic circuits that help promote sustainability, both for the environment and labor practices. Beyond Alternative Food Networks provides original insight and in-depth analysis of the alternative food network now thriving in Italy, and highlights ways such networks become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

Author : Cristina Grasseni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472520913

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Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind these movements and key themes such as collective buying, relationships with local producers and consumers, financial management, to the everyday political and practical negotiation involving GAS groups. Vitally, the author demonstrates how GAS processes are key to providing survival strategies for small farms, local food chains and sustainable agriculture as a whole. Beyond Alternative Food Networks offers a fresh and engaged approach to this area, demonstrating the capacity for individuals to join organised forms of alternative political ecologies and impact upon their local food systems and practices. These social groups help to create new economic circuits that help promote sustainability, both for the environment and labor practices. Beyond Alternative Food Networks provides original insight and in-depth analysis of the alternative food network now thriving in Italy, and highlights ways such networks become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

Author : Cristina Grasseni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fair trade food
ISBN : 1350042110

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Author : Alessandro Corsi,Filippo Barbera,Egidio Dansero,Cristiana Peano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319904092

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Alternative Food Networks by Alessandro Corsi,Filippo Barbera,Egidio Dansero,Cristiana Peano Pdf

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants of the participation of operators – both consumers and producers – in AFNs are, what the conditions for their sustainability are, what their social and environmental effects are, and how they are distributed geographically. Further discussions include the effect of AFNs in structuring the food chain and how AFNs can be successfully scaled up. The authors explicitly take an interdisciplinary approach to analyse AFNs from different perspectives, using as an example the Italian region of Piedmont, a particularly interesting case study due to the diffusion of AFNs in the area, as well as due to the fact that it was in this region that the ‘Slow Food’ movement originated.

Author : David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136641220

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Alternative Food Networks by David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman Pdf

Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an integrative social practice framework to understand alternative food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.

Author : David M. Kaplan,Julie Eckinger,Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1939 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9400718535

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Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics by David M. Kaplan,Julie Eckinger,Paul B. Thompson Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics. It includes summaries of historical approaches, current scholarship, social movements, and new trends from the standpoint of the ethical notions that have shaped them. It combines detailed analyses of specific topics such as the role of antibiotics in animal production, the Green Revolution, and alternative methods of organic farming, with longer entries that summarize general areas of scholarship and explore ways that they are related. Renewed debate, discussion and inquiry into food and agricultural topics have become a hallmark of the turn toward more sustainable policies and lifestyles in the 21st century. Attention has turned to the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, as well as to non-food uses of cultivated biomass and the products of animal husbandry. These wide-ranging debates encompass questions in human nutrition, animal rights and the environmental impacts of aquaculture and agricultural production. Each of these and related topics is both technically complex and involves an – often implicit – ethical dimension. Other topics include methods for integrating ethics into scientific and technical research programs or development projects, the role of intensive agriculture and biotechnology in addressing persistent world hunger and the role of crops, forests and engineered organisms in making a transition to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics proves an indispensible reference point for future research and writing on topics in agriculture and food ethics for decades to come.

Author : Beyza Oba,Zeynep Özsoy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Activism
ISBN : 9781529220032

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Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives by Beyza Oba,Zeynep Özsoy Pdf

This book investigates Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs) as spaces for prefigurative food politics.

Author : David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136641237

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Alternative Food Networks by David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman Pdf

Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an integrative social practice framework to understand alternative food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.

Author : S.M.Riad Shams,Demetris Vrontis,Yaakov Weber,Evangelos Tsoukatos,Antonino Galati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429560521

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Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability by S.M.Riad Shams,Demetris Vrontis,Yaakov Weber,Evangelos Tsoukatos,Antonino Galati Pdf

This cross-disciplinary business book develops insight into the management of businesses operating in various economic sectors that take a proactive approach to the triple dimension of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), positioning itself as a key reference for both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management. The concept of sustainability is today at the heart of international policies and debate, and plays a key role in deep changes to the organizational models of companies operating in a wide range of sectors of economic activity. In particular, this book aims to gain a deeper understanding of how stakeholder engagement can contribute to value co-creation both in the company and along the supply chain, and what distinguishes the differing involvement of stakeholders, in particular between public involvement and stakeholder participation. Each chapter of this book presents different modalities of stakeholder involvement and develops the concept of value co-creation from organizational and marketing perspectives. This book is recommended reading for those interested in the fields of stakeholder engagement and theory, sustainability, business studies, and sustainable development.

Author : Georgina McAllister,Sandra Bhatasara,Priscilla Claeys,Jo Howard,Stefanie Lemke,Katharine McKinnon,Nina Isabella Moeller
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832524237

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Participatory action research in a time of COVID and beyond by Georgina McAllister,Sandra Bhatasara,Priscilla Claeys,Jo Howard,Stefanie Lemke,Katharine McKinnon,Nina Isabella Moeller Pdf

Author : J.K. Gibson-Graham,Kelly Dombroski
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788119962

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The Handbook of Diverse Economies by J.K. Gibson-Graham,Kelly Dombroski Pdf

Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others, from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet. With contributing authors from twenty countries, it presents new thinking around subjectivity and methodology as strategies for making other worlds possible.

Author : Peter Utting
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783603473

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Social and Solidarity Economy by Peter Utting Pdf

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual', we know far less about whether it can really move beyond its fringe status in many countries and regions. Under what conditions can social and solidarity economy scale up and scale out - that is, expand in terms of the growth of social and solidarity economy organizations and enterprises, or spread horizontally within given territories? Bringing together leading researchers, blending theoretical and empirical analysis, and drawing on experiences and case studies from multiple countries and regions, this volume addresses these questions. In so doing, it aims to inform a broad constituency of development actors, including scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers.

Author : Emily Huddart Kennedy,Maurie J. Cohen,Naomi Krogman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781784710606

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Putting Sustainability into Practice by Emily Huddart Kennedy,Maurie J. Cohen,Naomi Krogman Pdf

Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on behavioral economics and social psychology. Empirical research is featured from eight different countries, using both qualitative and quantitative data to support its thesis.

Author : R. Edward Freeman,Johanna Kujala,Sybille Sachs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319627854

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Stakeholder Engagement: Clinical Research Cases by R. Edward Freeman,Johanna Kujala,Sybille Sachs Pdf

This book offers a case-study approach to stakeholder theory that moves beyond theoretical analysis to the applied. As stakeholder theory has moved into the mainstream of management thinking in business ethics and a number of the management disciplines, there is an increasing need to explore the subtleties of stakeholder engagement via examples from practice. The case studies in this volume explore a number of aspects of the idea of stakeholder engagement, via the method of clinical case studies. Edited by leading scholars in the field of business ethics and stakeholder theory, this text affords a solid grounding in theory, brought to new levels of applied understanding of stakeholder engagement.

Author : Colin R. Anderson,Jennifer Brady,Charles Z. Levkoe
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555428

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Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson,Jennifer Brady,Charles Z. Levkoe Pdf

Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practices underlying some of the most important issues facing the emerging field of foodstudies today. Conversations in Food Studies brings to the table thirteen original contributions organized around the themes of representation, governance, disciplinary boundaries, and, finally, learning through food. This collection offers an important and groundbreaking approach to food studies as it examines and reworks the boundaries that have traditionally structured the academy and that underlie much of food studies literature.